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UNITED STATES PATENT 'GFFrcE.

\VILLIAM HALKYARD, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. v

MACHINE FOR SETTING LAClNG-HOOK$.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,014, dated May 31, 1887.

Application filed DeccmherB, 1886. Serial No. 220,951. (No modell It; all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HALKYARD,

of the city and county of Providence, and State ofRhode Island,have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Lacing-Hook-Fastening Machines, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to a machine for set ting or fastening ordinary metal I ic lacing-hooks upon leather or any material v One object of my invention is to construct a movable or rocking pivoted anvil, which will be automatic in its operations of taking a lacing-hook from the feed-track and carrying the hook in adjusted position to the punch, and when the punch has driven the hook into secure position 011 the leather the anvil will re cede from the book without necessitating-the same to be moved, and will return to the feedtrack for another hook.

Another object of my invention is to provide a gravity feed-track having a vibrating section and adapted to feed onto the anvil; and, further, to provide a reciprocating stop near the track and a reciprocatingfecd-finger engaging the feed-track.

Another object of my invention is to periodically operate the feed-finger by means of mechanism connected to the reciprocating punch-carriage.

Another object of my invention is to construct the reciprocating punclrcarriage, the oscillating anvil, the reciprocating stop and the reciprocating feed-finger, the vibrating section of the feed-track, so that all of said parts of the apparatus may automatically perform their several functions by the rotation of the main shaft of the machine.

To the above purposes my invention consists in certain combinations, set forth in the claims at the end of this specification, and which are composed of several mechanisms, of which the following are the principal: a pivoted oscillating or rocking anvil, a carrieri'lange upon the head of the anvil, a socket or perforation in the carrier-flange, means for oscillating the anvil, a reciprocating stop actuated by the oscillating anvil, a feed-track constructed of a fixed section and a hinged section adapted to vibrate within the hopper and each section provided with a guard, a reciprocating punch-carriage, a reciprocating feedfinger and mechanism for operating the finger and connected with the punclroarriage, the driving-shaft and the means intermediate ot'said shaft and the punch-carriage, the anvil, and the hinged section ot' feed-track.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I have illustrated by the accompaview in isometric perspective of my improved lacing-hoolcfastening machine. Fig. 2 repre'-' sents a front view of my improved machine, partly broken away to show the springstop set in the machine-frame, and having the feed-track, the hopper, and the reciprocating tfeedfinger and its actuating mechanism omitted. Fig. 3 represents a side view of Fig. 2. Fig L represents a' horizontal sectional view taken on line 4 4 in Fig. 3. a vertical sectional view of the lower portion of the machine, taken on line 5 5,in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents a vertical central sectional view of the lower end of the punch-carriage and the stock, with a punch secured therein. Fig. 7 represents a detached perspective view of portions of the work-table and the arm secured upon the punch-carriage, together with the reciprocating feed-finger and the intermediate mechanism between said finger and arm; also, a portion of the machine-frame is here shown. Fig. 8 represents a transverse sectional view of the feed-track and guard therefor, and shows a lacing-hook as traveling on the track. Fig. 9 represents an enlarged per- Fig. 5 represents with the two upright standards 12, whichare constructed with journal-sockets, in which sockets is journaled the drivingshaft 13, hav

ing the peculiarly-formed cam-groove 14 formed therearound. Upon one end of the shaft 13 is a loose band-pulley, 15, for running the machine by steam-power, if desired, and this band-pulley is made fast upon the shaft by means of the ordinary form of clutch, 16. The hand-wheel, 17 is keyed on the shaft and is manipulated by the operator to drive the shaft.

In a recess at the front of the machine frame slides the punch-carriage 18, which has two of its long edges rabbeted and is hollowed out upon the back for about half of its length. The carriage 18 is set in position by means of the plates 19, secured to eitherside thereof to the outside of the frame by means of screws.

Near the center of the hollow back of the carriage is connected by means of the pivot 20 the pitman 21, which is attached at the upper let into the side thereof.

end by a pivot to the wristplate 22, which is secured to the end of the shaft 13. Upon the lower end of the carriage is the punch-stock 23, which is formed with the socket 24, constructed of two different diameters, of which the outer portion is the larger and is internally screw-threaded, and the inner portion is smaller and is provided with the setserew 25,

The sleeve 26 carries the punch 27 and is externally screwthreaded and set into the socket 24, as shown in Fig. 6. The turning of the wrist-plate 22 by the shaft 13 will reciprocate the punchcarriage and punch vertically in an obvious manner.

At the front of the machineframe 11, and upon an extension thereof, is arranged the work-table 28, consisting of a block having a curved face formed with a large recess, 29, in which the anvil 30 is pivoted by means of the pivot 31, fixed in the table across the recess. The anvil 30 is formed with a separate upper end, which is secured to the body thereof by means of the screws 32, and the head portion lar part of the hook into axial alignment with the punch.

In order to oscillate the anvil indirectly by the shaft 13, I provide the following means: The lower part of the anvil is bent and is formed with a slit, 37, across which is fixed the pin 38, as shown in Fig. 5. To the pin 38is hinged the parallel rod 39,whieh inturn is hinged to the rock-bar 40, arranged within the hollow interior of the machine-frame and vibrating on the axle 41, fixed across the frame. The upper end of rock-bar 40 is slightly curved track 43 44,which leads from the hopper 45 to the side of the anvil. The feed-track comprises a lower fixed section, 43,which is a band curved at the lower end and inclined up the side of the maehine'frarne, to which it is securely fixed at the upper end by the bar 46. The extreme lower end section, 43, is made of the same dimensions as the carrier flange 33 on the head of the anvil, and is placed so that said carrier comes into perfect alignment therewith at the lower limit of oscillation, whereby ahook may be slid from the track onto the carrier-flange.

The hopper 45 maybe secured to the side of frame 11 in any suitable manner, and is composed of two portions secured together by means of rivets 47, and these portions are so spaced from each other as to form a vertical guideway or slit, 48, in the three sides of the hopper.. The section 44 of the track is fiat in part, like the section 43, and the part lying within the hopper and working in the guideway thereof is enlarged into a plate, 49. (Shown dotted in Fig. 1.)

Thelower end of section 44 of the feed-track is undercut or diagonal, and is a pin set through a perforation in the track, to the inner end of which pin is secured one leaf of the hinge 51, the other leaf being secured to the fixed bar 46. This construction admits of the section being vibrated vertically on the hinge 51. The section 44 turns on pin 50 and is held thereon by linchpin 52, and the.upper edge of the track is in perfect alignment with the upper edge of the fixed section 43 when at the upper limit of vibration, as shown in Fig. 1. \Vhen the hinged section 44 is moved downward, the part within hopper 45 is accordingly lowered to near the bottom of the hopper, and when the section is raised again the broad portion passes through the interior of the hopper, and this movement is repeated as the hinged section of feed-track is vibrated, so that the portion within the hopper will act as a selector for gathering the lacing-hooks from within the hopper and mounting them upon the track in position to slide therealong and be fed to the carrier-flange of the anvil. One side of the .hopper 45 is formed with an opening, 53, through which the hooks may pass along the track from out the hopper when the hinged section of track is elevated.

Each section 43 and 44 of the feed-track is provided with a guard, 54 and 55, respectively. The guards are metallic strips bent curved longitudinally on themselves, as shown in crosssection in Fig. 8, and are secured to the respective sections of track by means of rivets 1 hook in position.

364,0;4 V i a 56, and curve up over the upper edge of the track, so that a lacing-hook,{as 57, may not be dislodged from the track.

The hinged section of track 44 is vibrated through the link 58, pivoted to pin 50, and having the other end provided with a bolt, 62, working in the slot 59, formed in one arm of the L-shaped rocker 60, which is pivoted at its angle to the frame 11 by means of pivot 61. The upper arm of the rocker 60 is pivoted to the L-shaped connecting-rod 63, which is connected to the rock-bar by means of pivot 64. By this arrangement the rock-bar 40 serves to reciprocate the connecting-rod 63 and to rock the rocker 60, which in turn reciprocates the link 58 and vibrates the hinged section of track 44 in a vertical plane.

The anvil and vibrating section of the feedtrack move, the one up and the other down, at the same time. The vibration of the track within the hopper serves to keep the track filled with lacing-hooks from the hopper, and

the hooks gravitate along'the track side by side, in the positions shown by hook 57 in Fig. 8, with their heads in toward the machine-frame. The hooks pass from the extreme lower end of the track onto the carrier flange 33 of anvil 30, and are there checked by the shoulder 66 on the flange and brought into position directly over the socket 34, with the tubular base of the hook projecting out normally from the face of the anvil and the head of the hook taking around the edge of the carrier-flange; and with the hook so adjusted the anvil is moved into the vertical position to the limit, and brings the tubular base of the hook directly under the punch 27.

The perforated. leather is now brought over the work-table and then placed down upon the base of the hook, so that the base will project up through a perforation in the leather. Then this is accomplished, the pn nch carriage descends and drives the punch into the tnbnlar base of the hook and turns the base down upon the leather and so clinches the The hook is now securely fastened into the leather and the punch is, resting through the base of the hook and in the socket 3; of the anvil. The punch is now raised clear of the work and then the anvil recedes and moves downward to the lower limit of oscillation, thereby withdrawing from the hook, which is left fastened in the leather, and without the operator having to nnhook the mounted hook from the anvil, ashasheretofore been the case in lacing-hook fasteners.

In order to check the run of hooks from off the track when the anvil moves from the lower 'in the slot of the link 77.

oscillation, and thereby depresses the stop, which will allow a hook to pass over it from. the track to the carrier-flange, the stop being located at the juncture of the track and anvil, and thetrack being cut away, as at 90.

In order to insure the constant feeding of the hooks onto the anvil, I have provided a reciprocating gravity feed-finger, 70, which has a wedge shaped head which engages the edge of the feed-track with its edge. This feedfingeris reciprocated by means of the following connections, which are operated by the puneh-carriage= The finger 70 is pivoted to the projection 71 on the adjustable sleeve 72, which is provided witha set-screw and mounted on the rock-shaft 73, journaled in the bracket 74, which is fixed to the machine-frame, as shown clearly in Fig. 7. Uponthe bar 73 is mounted another sleeve, 75, having a set screw and provided with an arm, 76, to which is pivoted the link 77, formed with aslot, 78. To the lower end of the punch-carriage 18 is secured a downwardly-projecting arm, 79, provided with a fixed pin, 80, which works When the punchcarriage descends, the arm 79 moves downward and the pin 80 travels along to thelower end of theslot in link 77, and then the link is forced downward, and this turns the rock'- shaft 73 and moves the feed-fingeron its length. The upstroke of the carriage moves the finger back again, and inthis way the finger is reciprocated on the track. When the track is filled with hooks, the feed-finger in its opera tion serves to trip over the backs of the hooks I and to drag them down toward the anvil with a raking'action.

'From the foregoing description of the machine the following operation of the same will be readily understood: When the shaft rotates, the punch descends, the anvil moves into vertical position, the spring-stop is raised to check the hooks, the feedfinger is forced up the track over the back of the next downcoming hook, and the hinged section of feedtrack descends. Then the several parts move back into normal position, as shown in Fig.

1, the punch being clear of the work before thcanvil moves downward, and thefeed-finger being drawn in toward the frame, thereby drawing down all the hooks between it'and across the work-table to bring the next 'perfo-' ration over the tubular base of the next hook to be fastened, which hook has been in the meantime brought from the feed-track into position by the anvil.

I am unaware of the heretofore use of a pivflange and means for'actuating the anvil, and

a feedtrack or means for conveying the lacinghooks adapted to feed the hooks onto the carrier-flange, substantially as herein described.

2. In a machine for setting lacing-hooks or the like, the combination, with apunch, of a pivoted rocking anvil provided with a carrierfiange having a socket therein and means for actuating the anvil, and afeedtrack adapted to feed onto the carrierfiange, substantially as herein described.

4 3. In a machine for setting lacing=hooks or the like, the combinatiomwith a punch, of a pivoted rocking or oscillating anvil provided with a carrierfiange, means for actuating the anvil, a feed-track adapted to'feed onto the carrier-flange at one-limit of oscillation of the anvil, and a movable stop for detaining the books on the feed-track when the anvil is away from the said feeding-point of oscillation, said stop actuated by the anvil, substantially as herein described.

4. In a machine for setting lacing-hooks or the like, the combination, with a punch, ofa work-table and an anvil pivoted to rock there in, and an adj ustingblock adjustably secured upon the work-table for adjusting the throw of the rocking anvil, substantially as and for the purpose herein described. 5. In amachine for setting lacing-hooks or the like, the combination as hereinbefore set forth, with a work-table, ofan anvil provided with'a carrier-flange and pivoted to rock or oscillate in the table, and means for rocking the anvil, substantially as and for the purpose described.

' 6. In a machine for settinglacing-hook's or i the like, the combination, with afeedtraek, of

apivoted gravity feed-finger provided with a wedge-shaped head resting across the feedtrack, and the finger adapted to reciprocate onits line of length obliquelyto the track, and means for reciprocating said feed-finger, substantial] y as herein described, whereby thefeedfinger may draw a lacing-hook down the track and then be moved over the back of the next down-coming hook to between the same and the adjacent or third book, and so in turn draw down the track for said next downcoming hook. t

7. In a machine for setting lacing-hooks or the like, the combination, with an anvil and a reciprocating punch-carriage provided with a punch, of a feed-track for the anvil, a pivoted feed-finger having a head disposed across said feed-track and the finger adaptedto reciprocate on its length obliquely to the trend of the feed-track, and connections intermediate of the punch-carriage and the feed-finger for reciprocating said feed-finger through the motion of said punch-carriage, substantially as herein described, wherebythe feed-finger may have a raking action imparted thereto to rake the lacing-hooks down the track one by one, as described.

8. The combination, with a punch, of a pivoted oscillating or rocking anvil provided with- 'a carrier-flange upon the head thereof, a hop per having a feed-track extending therefrom to one side of said I anvil, said track adapted to feed onto the carrier-flange, and means-for,

actuating the anvil, substantially as described.

9; The combination, with a punch, of an oscillating pivoted anvil provided with a carrier-flange and means for oscillating the anvil, and a hopper having a feed-track extending therefrom to one side of the anvil at a point ofthe oscillation of the anvil, said track in alignment with the carrier-flange at said point described, for oscillating the anvil, a carrier- 5 flange upon the head of the anvil, a hopper and a feedtrack extending therefrom to one side of the anvil and to a point of the oscillation of the anvil and feeding onto the carrier, and a movable stop disposed between the feedtrack and the anvil and near the said point of oscillation, so as to be engaged by the anvil at said point of oscillation, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

11. The combination, with a punch, of an oscillating or rocking pivoted anvil having a carrier-flange upon the head thereof provided with a socket on the working-face of the anvil, a hopper and a gravity feed=track consisting of a fixed section near the anvil adapted to feed onto the carrier-flange, and a hinged vibrating section of track working partly within the hopper and provided with m'eans substantially as described, a movable stop dismeans for oscillating the anvil, a carrier-flange upon the head of the anvil, a hopper, and a gravity feed-track extending from the. hopper to the anvil and comprising a fixed and a vibrating section of track, and a spring-stop disposed between the end of the feed-track and the anvil and engaged by the anvil, substam tially as and for the purpose herein described.

13. The combination, with the .worktable, of the anvil pivoted in the work-table and provided with a carrier-flange upon the hcadhaving a socket therein, a hopper and a gravity feed-track extending from within said hopper to the anvil and comp'rising a fixed section of track near the anvil, andahingcd vibrating sectlon lylng partly Within the hopper, and means for oscillating the anvil and vibrating the hinged section of the feed-track simultaneously, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

14. The combination, with the machineframe, of a reciprocating punchcarriage and the punch, a shaft mounted in the frame and provided with a cam-groove, a wrist-plate fixed to the shaft,and apitman connected with said wrist-plate and the punch-carriage for reciprocating the carriage, a work-table arranged upon the machine-frame, and an oscillating anvil pivoted in the table, a parallel rod plvoted by one end to the anvil, and a rockbar pivoted to the machine-frame and provided upon one end with a cam-stud adapted to engage with the-cam-groove of the shaft, the other end of the rock-bar hinged to the parallel rod, substantially as described,whereby the rotation of the shaft may indirectly oscillate the anvil and reciprocate the punch-carriage and punch.

15. The combination, with the machine. frame, of a work-table, an oscillating anvil pivoted in the table and provided with a carrier-flange, a hopper formed wit-h a gnideway, a gravity feed-track extending between the hopper and anvil and consisting of a fixed and a vibrating section,the fixed section inclined, with the lower end placed at one side of the anvil,so as to be in alignment with the carrierflange at one point of the oscillation of the anvil, the vibrating section of said track disposed normally inclined,with the lower end thereof undercut and hinged to the machineframe and abutting against the upper end of the fixed section and in alignment therewith, the upper end of the hinged section of track enlarged and like a plate and working in the guideway of the hopper so asto select thehooks from the hopper, apivoted rockbar provided with acamstud-adapted to engage with the cam-groove of the shaft, a parallel rod pivoted to the rockbar and pivoted to the anvil,

' and vibrate the hinged section of feed-track.

16. The combination, with the machineframe, of a work-table and an oscillating anvilpivoted in the table and having a carrierflange, a hopper provided with a guideway, a feed-track constructed of a fixed and a hinged section, substantially as described, and the hinged section working partly within the guideway of the hoppcnareciprocatin g punchcarriage carrying the punch, a shaft mounted in the frame and provided with a cam-groove and havinga wrist-plate'upon one end thereof, 1

a pitman intermediate of thepunch-carriage and wrist-plate, a pivoted rock-bar provided ing the hinged section of feed-track and the rocker, substantially as herein described, whereby the rotation of the shaft may recip rocate the punch-carriage and oscillate the anvil and vibrate the hinged section of feedtrack within the hopper, all as and for the purpose described.

17. The combination, with the feed-track, of the reciprocating punch-carriage, an arm provided with a pin and secured to the earriage, a rock-shaft mounted in a bracket, an extension adjustably. mounted on saidrockshaft, a slotted link hinged to said extension and the pin on said arm working in said slot, a projection on said rookshaft, and a gravity feedfinger pivoted to said projection and adapted to engage with its head the feed-track, substantially as described, whereby the reciprocation of the punch-carriage'niay reciprowith a cam-stud engaging the cam-groove, a,

cate the feed-finger upon thefeed-track, as and for the purpose herein described.

18. The combination, with the machineframe, of a work-table and an anvilpivoted to Q rock therein and provided with a carrierflange, a hopper formed with a guideway, a feed-track constructed of afixed and ahinged section, substantially as described, and extending within the hopper to the anvil, a spring-stop between said track and anvil and engaged by the latter, a reciprocating punchcarriage carrying the punch, the reciprocating gravity feed-finger, and means intermediate of said carriage and feed-finger, substantially as described, for reciprocating the feed-finger, a shaft mounted in the frame, and the connections between said shaft and the carriage and the shaft and the anvil and the hinged section of feed-track, substantially as described, whereby the rotation of the shaft may reciprocate the punch-carriage and the gravity feedfinger upon the feed-track,'and may oscillate the anvil and vibrate the hinged section of feed-track, substantially as and for the purpose herein described. 19. The combination, with the oscillating or rocking anvil, of the hopper formed with a guideway, a feed-track constructed of a fixed sect-ion near the anvil, and a hinged section partly within the hopper, and means for vibrating said hinged section, both said sections provided each with a guard secured upon one side of the track and curved outwardly and over the head or upper edge of the track, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

20. The combination, with the reciprocating frame and the shaft 13, of the wrist-plate 22,

the pitman 21, provided with pivot 20, and the punch-carriage 18, provided with the punchstock 23, having the punch, substantially as and for the purpose described.

23. The combination of the work table 28, the anvil 30, pivoted in said table, and means for oscillating the anvil, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

24. The combination of the work-table 28, the pivoted anvil 30, the feed-track 43 44, the

hopper 45, and means for vibrating the section of track 44, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

25. The combination of the Work-table 28 and the pivoted anvil 30, the spring-stop 67, the feed-track 43 44, the hopper 45, and means for vibrating a section of said track, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

26. The combination of the work-table 28, the pivoted rocking anvil 30, the stop 67 the feed-track 43 44, the hopper 45, the means, substantially as described, for vibrating the section of the track, the gravity feed-finger 7 O, and means for reciprocating said finger, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM HALKYARD.

Witnesses:

J. A. MILLER, -,Tr.,

M. F. BLIGH. 

